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Way to go, San Diego



Everyone's seen the fires affecting Los Angeles and San Diego counties the past few days. The Governator has been doing his best to assuage everyone's fears, President Bush declared almost all of Southern California a disaster area and opened up federal money for those affected. 900,000 plus have been evacuated (including my grandparents) with maybe a million in the next few days, and government reports now say that this many people haven't had to relocate since the Civil War. Thousands of homes are now nothing but cinder, leaving thousands of families wondering what they're going to do. This is truly sad to watch on TV. It is what it is, a natural disaster, a tragedy. Once again however, the best in people is coming through, and there is no greater example than what you see coming from the people of San Diego.

Similar to Katrina, thousands of people have now taken refuge in Qualcomm Stadium, home of the Chargers. Instead of being littered with garbage, looting, overflowing toilets, and accusations of rape taking place as was the case in the Superdome, Qualcomm is littered with ice, innumerable food lines serving gourmet California cuisine, masage and accupuncture rooms, translators working in Spanish and English, even insurance agencies for both car and home claims ready to help. AA meetings and even yoga classes are taking place. Families who now have nothing are coming together and offering what they can. I-5 and Escondido Freeway, which run close by the stadium are running smoothly with no congestion. Truly amazing. Literally unimaginable. Having spent immeasurable amount of time in San Diego myself, that is nothing short of a miracle. Just getting from Lindberg Field to Rancho Santa Fe is typically a 30 minute drive on I-5. So the very notion that things can be running so smoothly speaks volumes about not only the leadership taking place with the Marines from Camp Pendleton and churches throughout the area, but about the quality of people who happen to live in such a great part of the world.



So, while the fires continue to burn and create more damage, we should also take solace in the fact that such a great job is being done by so many people, and that San Diego will continue to be the greatest city in the world.

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